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Papyrus 2050
- Record Id:
- 040-002105419
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002104451
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000224.0x000127
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100143123629.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Papyrus 2050
- Title:
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Lease of a Hall of a House (P.Oxy. VII 1037, TM 20332)
- Scope & Content:
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A lease of a hall (exhedra) of a house located in Oxyrhynchus, in the quarter of the Shoemakers’ Market, the lessor being Aurelius Philoxenus and the lessee Aurelius Hierax. The rent for the hall and its appurtenances is 2,400 myriads of denarii and the lessor is entitled to claim the property back whenever he wants. The back has a one-line docket.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Greek Manuscripts
Papyri Collections - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002104451
040-002105419 - Is part of:
- Papyrus 1-3136 : Papyri
Papyrus 2050 : Lease of a Hall of a House (P.Oxy. VII 1037, TM 20332) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002104451[0691]/040-002105419
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Papyrus 1-3136
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Papyrus sheet, with holes throughout, broken off at the bottom, damaged to the left and lacking the right edges too. Writing is on both sides along the fibres, the back having one line. The papyrus is housed in a glass case.
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100143123629.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0444
- End Date:
- 0444
- Date Range:
- 11 August 444
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Papyrus.
Dimensions: 216 x 166 mm; housed in a glass case measuring 255 x 205 mm.
Script: Neat and large upright cursive hand.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt.
Provenance: Oxyrhynchus, Oxyrhynchite nome, Egypt. Presented as part of a lot comprising Papyri 2040-2075 by the Egypt Exploration Fund on 3 September 1914.
- Former External References:
- P.Oxy. VII 1037
- Publications:
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Catalogue of the Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1911-1915. Part I. Descriptions (London: British Museum 1969), p. 477.
The Oxyrhynchus Papyri VII (London: Egypt Exploration Fund 1910), pp. 179-180, no. 1037.
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten I (Berlin-Leipzig: W. de Gruyter 1922), p. 331.
A. H. M. Jones, J. R. Martindale, J. Morris, The prosopography of the later Roman Empire (Cambridge: University Press 1971), p. 836.
K. A. Worp, ‘Bemerkungen zur Höhe der Wohnungsmiete in einigen Papyri aus dem byzantinischen Ägypten’, Tyche. Beiträge zur alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 3 (1988), pp. 273-275 (p. 274).
Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden aus Ägypten VIII (Leiden: E. J. Brill 1992), p. 240.
H. Parkins, C. J. Smith, Trade, Traders, and the Ancient City (London-New York: Routledge 1998), p. 185.
H. Saradi, ‘Privatization and Subdivision of Urban Properties in the Early Byzantine Centuries: Social and Cultural Implications’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 35 (1998), pp. 17-43 (p. 33).
R. Alston, The City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt (London-New York: Routledge 2002), p. 337.
R. G. Hatzilambrou, ‘A Lease of House-Property from Byzantine Oxyrhynchus’, The Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 41 (2004), pp. 85-91 (pp. 85, 89).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)